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“Writing on Facebook Debbie Ann Le Page stated: “God bless you Barney, remember that lovely sunny afternoon, I laid down on the grass in the cemetery and we cuddled up together for two hours. I needed a friend that day and there you were my angel! God bless you.”

He has been known as “Barney, the Cemetery Cat” but I’m calling him Barney, the orange comforter! For some reason I’m really interested in ginger / marmalade cats, and have no idea why ( maybe it is just because I like the color orange, LOL ). Anyhow, if anyone thinks or has told you that animals or cats cannot be or are not “spiritual” – run away, far away.

Here is a beautiful magnificent ginger tabby cat whose Mission on Earth was quite obviously to look after the souls alive and passed, at St Sampson’s Cemetery, in Guernsey, the United Kingdom.

Barney greeted and comforted mourners for 20 years! I know from having our beloved Shandy for 16 years, that just having a live even if small, dynamic and loving, intelligent warm Be-ing around you – is a source of happiness, comfort and inspiration.

Grounds keeper Alan Curzon said Barney has now been laid to rest at the place where he spent his entire life brightening up the lives of hundreds of people during their darkest moments. This cat’s owner moved but as the Kitty kept returning to his work-place ( the Cemetery ) the neighborhood made him a home near to the cemetery and fed and cared for him.

Alan said: “When relatives and friends have suffered the awful loss of someone close to them and go to visit a cemetery they are not in the best frame of mind but Barney was always there to cheer them up.”

“For those who entered the cemetery with a heavy heart, he lightened up the experience for them. When people walked through the gates, he often came up to them and brushed against them.”

“There was not a bad bone in his body.”

“We are putting a plaque on the wall and a bench and have found a little space for him in the cemetery where he is buried as well.”

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with a Cat !! Yes, I love Monty Boy, just as much as I still love my beautiful kitty Shandy who sadly passed away on 24 February 2016. Who wouldn’t love Monty? He is a little boy, born with a chromosome problem, affecting the bridge of his nose, but fate dealt its hand and he was adopted by Michael, someone who at that time never dreamed that he would ever have a Cat, let alone fall in love with this Paw-some cat.

Michael & Mikala have an online Etsy shop and sales go toward helping shelter animals. I have purchased the Fur-ever Calendar and love it. Will you help too?

Please keep sweeeet Monty Boy Cat in your thoughts / prayers / healing …. as he has trouble at the moment with his kidneys.

I wrote the following poem for Monty Boy.

You can follow Monty’s story on Facebook, and the FB videos will show you just how much Monty and Michael love each other. This love is awe inspiring and touching. Once you have met Monty Boy, you will never see an animal friend again as “just a pet”. They are not pets owned by us, WE are owned by them, THEY grace us with their joyous, stoic and honest presence.

Those who know me well, understand that I believe in a “bigger world” than what there seems. I believe all Life forms are spiritual beings or sparks of consciousness from the “Divine” or the Source, incarnated into physical forms.

I believe that our Shandy cat was a special Be-ing sent to us, to keep us together and to teach us responsibility and how to Love. One month has passed now since he departed us, and his messages are still coming in strong. First of all, let me say that I once experienced a cat that had crossed over, returning in Spirit form, to let us know she was okay and in spirit form. That was a long time ago, when I began looking into our spiritual essence and connections. I am positive that Shandy cat will also visit me in Spirit, if I call upon him!

Esan & I will miss him and after some time, my grief will heal and his Spirit will carry me on. Shandy lived with us for 16 years since he was a baby, a gift from Heaven, our Millennium cat whom kept Esan and I together, and taught us responsibility.

His Earthly “tour of duty” is over, but I like to think of him now in Heaven and I told him that I will meet him again one day. His body just packed up internally and there wasn’t alot that could be done for him to make him comfortable and happy and little chance of a full recovery. He knew he was ill so we said our Goodbyes. I played him some music from Lia Scallon’s CD “A Song for the Animals” at our local Veterinarian and that helped. He went peacefully and we buried him in his garden.

The sweet little pretty Cat that likes to go Hiking !

Patrick Corr wasn’t a cat person until he met Stevie the blind cat who was in desperate need of a home. She changed him forever. He has said “I didn’t adopt Stevie when she was a kitten. I wasn’t even looking to adopt a cat, but when I heard she badly needed a home, I couldn’t resist.”

“She’s like any cat really, except that she’s blind. I adopted her 3 years ago from a local cat vet hospital as she badly needed a home. The Animal Care Society of Cork had been paying for her stay there for months, as no-one wanted to adopt her. Go figure.”

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On New Year’s Eve 2000 (i.e. 31 December 1999) just before midnight, our “Millenium” gift arrived.

It was a sweeeet small beautiful kitten – peeking out of some rocks (an old covered up well) out the front of of our house.

We decided the kitten must have been 4 to 5 weeks old and so today is designated as Shandy’s birthday!! Today Shandy is 16 years old.

If you go to the Categories of Posts on this site (on the right-hand side) and click on the drop down arrow, you will see Shandy has his very own Category of posts here on Fascinating Animals. He is indeed a fascinating animal and is featured on the “Our Animal Friends” area of this site too.

Your cat or dog (or any other animal) companion can also be featured on a page of her/his own by going to this tab.

I have rather cleverly designed an interactive Happy Birthday card for Shandy cat’s 14th birthday, 2 years ago.

Please join in wishing him a very nice Birthday by clicking onTHISlink for the birthday card. This will open a “dialog” box which will ask if you want to Open or Save “Happy Birthday Shandy.doc” which is a Microsoft Word document.

Please save the Word document somewhere to your computer, then have fun once you open it up to read it. Double-click on the “loud speaker” pictures/icons. Make sure the volume on your computer is turned up a little. Probably don’t use iTunes as it doesn’t seem to work.

If anyone is reading this post, please download the Birthday Card and make a comment on this thread about the card and to wish our beautiful Shandy a happy birthday. I dis-continued Shandy’s column, because of a lack of feedback or interest in it. Sometimes people are quite happy & free to give negative feedback, but this Blog hardly gets any positive Comments, for who knows what reason.

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So cute and I’m really glad this little Owlet, Fuku-chan, found a friend in this Scottish Fold kitten, Marimo. Wonder if they will still be friends when the kitten grows up? I always research these “cute” photos. This little Owlet has been captured and lives in a Japanese Owl Cafe, the consolation is that it has a cat friend at least for a while. I think that Owls shouldn’t be put into Cafes just for the amusement of human beings. Read more HERE.

I don’t know when these photos were taken, and I can’t read Japanese, so I can’t tell from the official Hukulou Coffee place what happened.